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Was Jesus 'gay'?
WorldNetDaily ^ | 7/16/2 | Stephen Bennett

Posted on 07/15/2002 10:58:55 PM PDT by scripter

One of the fastest growing churches among homosexuals in America and around the world is the Metropolitan Community Church – a "Christian" church specifically for "gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered communities." The MCC was originally started by openly homosexual ex-Baptist minister, Troy Perry, who after the discovery and disclosure of his homosexuality, losing his license as a minister, a divorce and estrangement from his wife and children, as well as a failed suicide attempt, "rediscovered" his rainbow-colored vocation and ministry.

From his Los Angeles living room in 1968, Perry and his initial 12 members began their "gay church." According to their website, in 2003, the MCC will embody over 77,000 members, spanning more than 17 countries around the globe. Tens of thousands of so-called faithful "Christian" homosexual men and women flock weekly to MCC-affiliated churches worldwide to be "reaffirmed" with the message that God loves them and "gay is OK."

The Rev. Troy Perry, highly regarded in gay circles, has been an invited guest to the White House on four separate occasions from 1977 to 1997 – three alone by former President Bill Clinton. In 1997, Clinton "celebrated" Perry as an "honoree" at a White House breakfast recognizing 100 national "spiritual leaders" in America.

I don't know where this new "open and affirming" world would be today without this modern-day homosexual prophet and "gay"-savvy biblical interpreter. According to Perry and the MCC's official website, for over 2,000 years, Christians including myself, have been interpreting the Bible wrong. Maybe you have, too. Did you know:

In the immoral days in which we live, homosexual men and women are grasping for every possible straw to get acceptance for their destructive, aberrant lifestyle. The secret gay agenda has infiltrated the media, Hollywood, the public schools, the government and, yes, now even religion. How sad to say homosexuals have gone as far as to try and hijack and pervert biblical Christianity and the Gospel of Jesus Christ – all in the name of "gay sex." And America, we've let it happen.

As a man who once lived as a homosexual, my heart continually breaks for those lost in the web of the "gay" deception – a life of sadness, loneliness, pain and even death. Yet a godly anger within me burns even more for those who have the gall and nerve to try and make my Lord and Saviour, the One who rescued me from the tentacles and grips of the homosexual lifestyle, into the "God of Gay."

It may be a "rainbow day" for these misguided men and women now ... in biblical terms, "the pleasures of sin for a season." I highly doubt that it will be as colorful a day when they hear the words from the God whom they thought was so "open and affirming": "Get away from, ye that work iniquity ... I never knew you."

May they be miraculously reached with the truth in love, before it's too late.




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To: anka
The majority of our founding fathers were deists who believed that...

You are as delusional and revisionist about the founding of this country as the homo preacher in the story above is about the Bible.

41 posted on 07/16/2002 5:02:35 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: anka
Of the 55 framers of the Constitution, for example, the late University of Dallas historian M.E. Bradford found that "with no more than five exceptions, they were orthodox members of one of the established Christian communions."1 Bradford wrote that "references made by the Framers to Jesus Christ as Redeemer and son of God . . . are commonplace in their private papers, correspondence and public remarks-and in the early records of their lives."2 And they did a lot more than talk about their faith: The variety of surviving Christian witness in the papers and sayings of the Framers is indeed astonishing. Elias Boudinot of New Jersey was heavily involved in Christian missions and was the founder of the American Bible Society. Roger Sherman . . . was a ruling elder of his church. Richard Bassett rode joyfully with his former slaves to share in the enthusiasm of their singing on the way to Methodist camp meetings. . . . John Dickinson of Delaware wrote persuasive letters to youthful friends concerning the authority of Scripture and the soundness of Christian evidences. . . . both James Madison and Alexander Hamilton regularly led their households in the observance of family prayers.

1 Bradford, M.E., Founding Fathers: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution (University of Kansas Press, 1994), p. xvi.

2 Bradford, M.E., Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution (The University of Georgia Press, 1993), p. 89.

I notice that your newspaper has an ongoing debate concerning the religious nature of the Founding Fathers. A recent letter claimed that most of the Founding Fathers were deists, and pointed to Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Hamilton, and Madison as proof. After making this charge, the writer acknowledged the "voluminous writings" of the Founders, but it appears that she has not read those writings herself. However, this is no surprise since the U. S. Department of Education claims that only 5 percent of high schools graduates know how to examine primary source documentation.

Interestingly, the claims in this recent letter to the editor are characteristic of similar claims appearing in hundreds of letters to the editor across the nation. The standard assertion is that the Founders were deists. Deists? What is a deist? In dictionaries like Websters, Funk & Wagnalls, Century, and others, the terms "deist," "agnostic," and "atheist" appear as synonyms. Therefore, the range of a deist spans from those who believe there is no God, to those who believe in a distant, impersonal creator of the universe, to those who believe there is no way to know if God exists. Do the Founders fit any of these definitions?

None of the notable Founders fit this description. Thomas Paine, in his discourse on "The Study of God," forcefully asserts that it is "the error of schools" to teach sciences without "reference to the Being who is author of them: for all the principles of science are of Divine origin." He laments that "the evil that has resulted from the error of the schools in teaching [science without God] has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism." Paine not only believed in God, he believed in a reality beyond the visible world.

In Benjamin Franklin's 1749 plan of education for public schools in Pennsylvania, he insisted that schools teach "the necessity of a public religion . . . and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern." Consider also the fact that Franklin proposed a Biblical inscription for the Seal of the United States; that he chose a New Testament verse for the motto of the Philadelphia Hospital; that he was one of the chief voices behind the establishment of a paid chaplain in Congress; and that when in 1787 when Franklin helped found the college which bore his name, it was dedicated as "a nursery of religion and learning" built "on Christ, the Corner-Stone." Franklin certainly doesn't fit the definition of a deist.

Nor does George Washington. He was an open promoter of Christianity. For example, in his speech on May 12, 1779, he claimed that what children needed to learn "above all" was the "religion of Jesus Christ," and that to learn this would make them "greater and happier than they already are"; on May 2, 1778, he charged his soldiers at Valley Forge that "To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian"; and when he resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the military on June 8, 1783, he reminded the nation that "without a humble imitation" of "the Divine Author of our blessed religion" we "can never hope to be a happy nation." Washington's own adopted daughter declared of Washington that you might as well question his patriotism as to question his Christianity.

Alexander Hamilton was certainly no deist. For example, Hamilton began work with the Rev. James Bayard to form the Christian Constitutional Society to help spread over the world the two things which Hamilton said made America great: (1) Christianity, and (2) a Constitution formed under Christianity. Only Hamilton's death two months later thwarted his plan of starting a missionary society to promote Christian government. And at the time he did face his death in his duel with Aaron Burr, Hamilton met and prayed with the Rev. Mason and Bishop Moore, wherein he reaffirmed to him his readiness to face God should he die, having declared to them "a lively faith in God's mercy through Christ, with a thankful remembrance of the death of Christ." At that time, he also partook of Holy Communion with Bishop Moore.

The reader, as do many others, claimed that Jefferson omitted all miraculous events of Jesus from his "Bible." Rarely do those who make this claim let Jefferson speak for himself. Jefferson own words explain that his intent for that book was not for it to be a "Bible," but rather for it to be a primer for the Indians on the teachings of Christ (which is why Jefferson titled that work, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth"). What Jefferson did was to take the "red letter" portions of the New Testament and publish these teachings in order to introduce the Indians to Christian morality. And as President of the United States, Jefferson negotiated treaties with the Kaskaskia, Cherokee, and Wyandotte tribes wherein he provided—at the government's expense—Christian missionaries to the Indians. In fact, Jefferson himself declared, "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus." While many might question this claim, the fact remains that Jefferson called himself a Christian, not a deist.

James Madison trained for ministry with the Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon, and Madison's writings are replete with declarations of his faith in God and in Christ. In fact, for proof of this, one only need read his letter to Attorney General Bradford wherein Madison laments that public officials are not bold enough about their Christian faith in public and that public officials should be "fervent advocates in the cause of Christ." And while Madison did allude to a "wall of separation," contemporary writers frequently refuse to allow Madison to provide his own definition of that "wall." According to Madison, the purpose of that "wall" was only to prevent Congress from passing a national law to establish a national religion.

None of the Founders mentioned fit the definition of a deist. And as is typical with those who make this claim, they name only a handful of Founders and then generalize the rest. This in itself is a mistake, for there are over two hundred Founders (fifty-five at the Constitutional Convention, ninety who framed the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights, and fifty-six who signed the Declaration) and any generalization of the Founders as deists is completely inaccurate.

The reason that such critics never mention any other Founders is evident. For example, consider what must be explained away if the following signers of the Constitution were to be mentioned: Charles Pinckney and John Langdon—founders of the American Bible Society; James McHenry—founder of the Baltimore Bible Society; Rufus King—helped found a Bible society for Anglicans; Abraham Baldwin—a chaplain in the Revolution and considered the youngest theologian in America; Roger Sherman, William Samuel Johnson, John Dickinson, and Jacob Broom—also theological writers; James Wilson and William Patterson—placed on the Supreme Court by President George Washington, they had prayer over juries in the U. S. Supreme Court room; and the list could go on. And this does not even include the huge number of thoroughly evangelical Christians who signed the Declaration or who helped frame the Bill of Rights.

Any portrayal of any handful of Founders as deists is inaccurate. (If this group had really wanted some irreligious Founders, they should have chosen Henry Dearborne, Charles Lee, or Ethan Allen). Perhaps critics should spend more time reading the writings of the Founders to discover their religious beliefs for themselves rather than making such sweeping accusations which are so easily disproven.

Thank You,
David Barton/WallBuilders

42 posted on 07/16/2002 5:02:58 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: scripter
Know this, there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts . . . (paraphrased from II Peter 3:3)
43 posted on 07/16/2002 5:08:33 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay
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To: anka
From THIS LINK.

"On April 18, 1775 John Adams and John Hancock were at the home of Rev. Jonas Clarke, a Lexington pastor and militia leader. That same night Paul Revere arrived to warn them of the approaching Redcoats. The next morning British Major Pitcairn shouted to an assembled regiment of Minutemen; "Disperse, ye villains, lay down your arms in the name of George the Sovereign King of England." The immediate response of Rev. Jonas Clarke or one of his company was:

"We recognize no Sovereign but God and no King but Jesus."

Sound familiar?

44 posted on 07/16/2002 5:11:23 AM PDT by glorygirl
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To: anka
From this link:

George Washington: His personal prayer book, written in his own handwriting, declares continual fidelity to the Lord Jesus Christ:

"O most Glorious God, in Jesus Christ my merciful and loving Father, I acknowledge and confess my guilt, in the weak and imperfect performance of the duties of this day."

James Madison: "Chief Architect" of the U. S. Constitution, wrote in the margin of his Bible, "Christ's Divinity appears by St. John chapter XX, 2; 'And Thomas answered and said unto Him, my Lord and my God!' Resurrection testified to and witnessed by the Apostles, Acts IV, 33."

45 posted on 07/16/2002 5:21:16 AM PDT by glorygirl
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To: glorygirl
Also this:

"The Continental Congress, on September 11, 1777, recommended and approved that the Committee of Commerce "import 20,000 Bibles from Holland, Scotland, or elsewhere," because of the great need of the American people and the great shortage caused by the interruption of trade with England by the Revolutionary War. "

46 posted on 07/16/2002 5:26:05 AM PDT by glorygirl
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To: anka
John Jay: First Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court:

"Unto Him who is the author and giver of all good, I render sincere and humble thanks for His manifold and unmerited blessings, and especially for our redemption and salvation by His beloved Son."

47 posted on 07/16/2002 5:27:17 AM PDT by glorygirl
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To: anka
George Mason: "Father" of the Bill of Rights;

"My soul I resign into the hands of my Almighty Creator, whose tender mercies are all over His works, who hateth nothing that He hath made, and to the justice and wisdom of whose dispensations I willingly and cheerfully submit, humbly hoping from His unbounded mercy and benevolence, through the merits of my blessed Savior, a remission of my sins".

48 posted on 07/16/2002 5:28:14 AM PDT by glorygirl
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To: anka
"Statesmen...may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Christianity and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue."

- John Adams

49 posted on 07/16/2002 5:30:04 AM PDT by glorygirl
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To: scripter
That homosexuality is not a sin in God's eyes – but a twisted teaching of homophobic, misguided infallible men?

A Freudian slip perhaps?

50 posted on 07/16/2002 5:30:42 AM PDT by ladtx
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To: anka; AppyPappy
Well actually M.E. Bradford in doing study of the Founders for his book Founding Fathers uncovered facts supporting that 50 of the 55 original signers were active in their respective churches. Considering I don't recall any deist churches around, I would have to assume they were some form of Judeo-Christian. They were Christians, only a few at best were deist
51 posted on 07/16/2002 5:31:35 AM PDT by billbears
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To: scripter
When are we going to return to acknowledging the truth ??? A homosexual is a Queer !!!
52 posted on 07/16/2002 5:40:22 AM PDT by GeekDejure
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To: AppyPappy
You've always got to leave Jefferson out as an exception to everything. If it is Tuesday, he is a deist. On Wednesday, he is an atheist, but on weekends he likes Jesus but takes scissors to the gospels because he alone, of course, knows what sayings are the real ones.
53 posted on 07/16/2002 5:43:24 AM PDT by Taliesan
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To: scripter
Yes, a "BARF ALERT!" would have been very helpful (although if you think about it, it is almost automatic given the premise of the article). The homo's still haven't found anything else to talk about except their genitalia and their perverse lifestyle. It doesn't matter what the subject is, but sooner or later, somehow, they will try to make it a "homosexual issue". Attacks like these have been made on Jesus and the Bible for years. They are still just as unfounded and just as unproven. Most people see them for the desperate attempt at provocation that they are.

I agree with others on this thread that this really isn't even worth discussion.
54 posted on 07/16/2002 5:46:14 AM PDT by Pablo64
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To: Goldhammer
How did this happen?

Simple. The only thing needed for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.

55 posted on 07/16/2002 5:47:10 AM PDT by rdb3
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To: Taliesan
"he alone, of course, knows what sayings are the real ones."

"Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. I inquire after no man's, and trouble none with mine."

--Thomas Jefferson to Miles King, 1814. ME 14:198

56 posted on 07/16/2002 5:48:46 AM PDT by glorygirl
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To: scripter
Blasphemy. I believe that factions of Christianity interpret the Bible, to some extent, to support their views. But to distort the Bible to condone sin is just wrong.
57 posted on 07/16/2002 5:49:16 AM PDT by rintense
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To: scripter
That Ruth and Naomi (daughter-in-law and mother-in-law) may be the most famous, committed lesbians in the Bible – (Naomi being a possible pederast)?

They can't conceive of devotion or friendship without sex, or even without sexual attraction. To them it's just inconceivable that Ruth loved Naomi as a mother.

Since Ruth married Naomi's son, and then Naomi's cousin Boaz, where do they see a "committed" lesbian relationship?

58 posted on 07/16/2002 5:49:39 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: Kaslin
I make it a habit not to post on the religion threads, but I just have to go on record as saying this very well could be the most disgusting article I've EVER seen.

I'm stunned that WorldNet would even give this font space.

59 posted on 07/16/2002 5:51:20 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: scripter
please pardon my french but this is so full of shit!
60 posted on 07/16/2002 5:51:27 AM PDT by patriot_wes
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